Evaluation of Hyoid Position in Children of 7-11 Years Old with Ankyloglossia in Lateral Cephalometic Radiographs.

Introduction: Ankyloglossia is an anatomic developmental anomaly determining by thick and short, fi brotic ferenum. Tongue changes have severe eff ects on occlusion and oropharyngeal structures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the position of hyoid in children 7-11 years` old with ankyloglossia in lateral cephalometric radiographs.

Central ameloblastoma with a peripheral ameloblastoma-like component: a case report.

Amebloblastoma as the most common epithelial odontogenic neoplasm may occur in two forms of central and peripheral. This report presents a case of a 41-year-old Iranian female with a six-month complaint from a painless mass in the right posterior portion of the mandible. The case was diagnosed as an exophytic epulis-like peripheral component with characteristics of peripheral ameloblastoma and an intrabony component like solid ameloblastoma.

The effect of ovalbumin on orthodontic induced root resorption.

Background: This randomized trial was undertaken to investigate the effect of experimentally induced allergy on orthodontic induced root resorption.

Materials And Methods: A total of 30 Wistar rats were divided randomly into test and control groups. Starting from the first 3 days, the rats in the test group were injected intra-peritoneally by 2 mg ovalbumin as allergen and 0.